Applied Topology

Maroulas Research Group is hiring a postdoc in the area of Statistical Learning and TDA with a start date of August 1, 2022.  The position is a 12-month 100% research appointment.  Application deadline is February 11, 2022, but later applications may be considered. For further information, please check:
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/19466

Heather Harrington writes:
We have now opened an advert
for two Senior Research Associate positions for the Turing-Roche
partnership. The posts are full-time for 3 years and will give the
post holder(s) experience working closely with both Turing and Roche
to help shape the direction of the partnership, as well as the freedom
to develop their own area of aligned research under the mentorship
from senior leaders in both academia and industry. We’re keen to
attract some great candidates so would appreciate if you could share
far and wide with your networks- the job advert with more information
is here. https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/senior_research_associate_turingroche_partnership_19065/en/

The board is very interested in TDA for health/biomed data. This is
based in London at the Alan Turing Institute, but there will be
interaction with board members, many of them across the UK including
Cambridge and Oxford. This is a senior postdoc, so some postdoc
experience would be helpful.
Please encourage strong candidates to apply!

This is a call for abstracts for contributed talks, and 
the second announcement of the 10th conference in the ATMCS series which will be held in 

Oxford, 20-24 June 2022

Conference webpage:  https://atmcs.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Abstract submission for contributed talks: https://atmcs.web.ox.ac.uk/register

Dear deadline for submission of abstracts is 31. January 2022.

We are pleased to report that Conference Proceedings of ATMCS10 will be published in conjunction with the Journal of Applied and Computation Topology (APCT). All those contributing to the conference will be invited to submit research and survey papers. Note, this is a separate procedure from the selection of contributed talks. 

The conference is supported by the Centre for Topological Data Analysis.
Limited financial help will be available.

Invited Speakers:
Hélène Barcelo (Arizona State) 
Saugata Basu (Purdue) 
Ulrich Bauer (Technical University of Munich) 
Andrew Blumberg (Columbia) 
Peter Bubenik (Florida) 
Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford) 
Herbert Edelsbrunner (ISTA) 
Alexander Grigor’yan (Bielefeld) 
Facundo Memoli (Ohio State) 
Elizabeth Munch (Michigan State) 
Nina Otter (UCLA) 
Leonid Polterovich (Tel Aviv) 
Eric Sedgewick (De Paul) 
Vin de Silva (Pomona College) 
Katharine Turner (Australian National University)

Scientific Committee:
Jacek Brodzki (Southampton)
Frédéric Chazal (INRIA)
Kathryn Hess (EPFL Lausanne)
Brittany Fasy (Montana State)
Robert Ghrist (UPenn)
Matt Kahle (Ohio State)
Claudia Landi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Primoz Skraba (Queen Mary, London)
Schmuel Weinberger (Chicago)

We look forward to welcoming you next year in Oxford!

Heather Harrington, Vidit Nanda and Ulrike Tillmann

Nina Otter writes:
I would like to advertise a PhD position to work on “Higher-dimensional structure in weather data”, for a September 2022 start, under my supervision at Queen Mary University of London. 

Deadline for applications is 30 January 2022, interviews will be held shortly afterwards. 

The PhD position is funded through a QMUL Postgraduate Research Studentship:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/funding_phd/studentships/

Applications are invited from outstanding candidates with either a strong background in algebraic topology, or in unsupervised learning and related fields. A masters degree is desirable, but not essential.

Please advertise with any suitable candidates. For any questions they should not hesitate to contact me at [email protected]

For more information on the project, and how to apply, see here:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/maths/media/maths/postgraduate/phd-projects/Otter_22.pdf

We are currently accepting applications for a virtual Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) for next summer (2022).  Please forward this invitation to undergraduate students who may be interested.   The priority application deadline is February 1, 2022.

The REU is under the co-mentorship of Dr. Jessi Cisewski-Kehe (UW-Madison, Statistics) and Dr. Brittany Terese Fasy (Montana State, Computer Science & Mathematics).  This REU will provide research experience for two undergraduates on statistical approaches to topological data analysis (TDA).  Research projects will address challenges in working with complex data at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and mathematics with the possibility of applications, such as in astronomy.

The expected duration of the REU is 8 weeks, with an approximate start date of 1 June 2022.  The REU includes a weekly stipend plus $2000 for sustenance allowance.

If you are interested in this position, please fill out the application linked below.
Application:  https://montana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_251O1kVcegarr9Q

More information about our TDA research collaboration: https://comptag.github.io/topostat/

Best wishes, 

Jessi Cisewski-Kehe ([email protected])

Brittany T. Fasy ([email protected])

Dear all,

We (Henry, Antonio, Hanka, Teresa) are organizing the second AATRN (Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network) poster session via Zoom, with the intention of giving a platform to younger members of our community to showcase their work, as well as a place for everyone to present their most recent research results. Topics of interest will span the full range of applied and computational topology.

The webpage for the poster sessions is at

https://sites.google.com/view/aatrn-poster-session

The poster session will take place on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at 11am Eastern Time = 5pm Central European Time. To submit a poster title and abstract, please fill out the registration form at 

https://forms.gle/5EocHz2zSwGtLPFF6

by January 15th, 2022.

Zoom coordinates and the website with the program will be sent out to the AATRN email list several days beforehand.

Best wishes,

Henry Adams, Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská, Teresa Heiss, Antonio Rieser

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Jie Wu writes:
I am advertising postdoctoral/regular positions at Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), which is Shing-Tung Yau’s Applied Math Center in Beijing. (Note. There is a Yau’s Math Center in Tsinghua University. This one is a new center of S. T. Yau aiming to mathematics and its applications, located in the suburban of Beijing City with walking distance to the Great Wall.) 

In addition to postdoctoral positions, BIMSA also hires Research Fellow (professorship), Associate Research Fellow (associate professorship) and Assistant Research Fellow (assistant professorship) in all areas of mathematics, frontiers of physics, computer science, finance and interdiscipline. 

The goal of BIMSA is for being the top five in the International Institutes of Applied Mathematics, with finally reaching the scale of about 300 people. Currently, the insitute has hired about 100 people.

I am pleased to say that topology is one of the areas at BIMSA’s hiring list. I should mention that both pure topology and applied topology are welcome. So far, we are establishing the area of topology. Personally, I hope that the topology team at BIMSA will work on pure math projects as well as applied projects, depending on the interests of individual team members. If anybody has any suggestions/comments/views how to build up the area of topology in a good way, please let me know.

The information of BIMSA’s recruitment is available at 
https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/2625

See https://alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job-opening.php?req=1679008 for a full description.

Date: February 14-18, 2022

Format: Online by Zoom

Webpage: https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/tda-week/home

### The registration is necessary to join the workshop. Please go to the above webpage for the registration. The deadline is January 31, 2022. 

Confirmed Invited speakers: 
Omer Bobrowski (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Magnus Bakke Botnan (VU University Amsterdam)
Benjamin Blanchette (University of Sherbrooke)
Mathieu Carrière (DataShape, Inria Sophia Antipolis)
Chao Chen (Stony Brook University)
Emerson G. Escolar (Kobe University)
Shu Kanazawa (Kyoto University)
Michael Lesnick (University at Albany)
Erik Lundberg (Florida Atlantic University)
András Mészáros (University of Toronto Scarborough)
Ippei Obayashi (Okayama University)
Bastian Rieck (Institute of AI for Health, Helmholtz Zentrum München)
Bei Wang (University of Utah)
Cheng Xin (Purdue University)
D. Yogeshwaran (Indian Statistical Institute)

Scope: In this online workshop, we discuss recent development of topological data analysis ranging from theory to applications, and clarify future directions in this field. To facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue, the workshop is being organized to have speakers working on diverse aspects of TDA in each session. This includes the algebraic aspects of TDA, random topology, links with machine learning, applications, and more. 

Organizers: Hideto Asashiba (Kyoto University)
Emerson G. Escolar (Kobe University)
Kenji Fukumizu (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics)
Yasu Hiraoka (Kyoto University)
Shu Kanazawa (Kyoto University)
Ippei Obayashi (Okayama University)
Tomoyuki Shirai (Kyushu University)